Shadow and the Real Substance

Law is the shadow of the Good things

Law is the shadow of the Good things to come

Hebrews 10:1-2
New King James Version (NKJV)

Animal Sacrifices Insufficient

10 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. ² For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

Example

• Keeping food in the table and telling the other person to eat the shadow.
• Kissing the loved ones on their photograph.

10 Commandments are shadows

Jesus is the substance

Hebrews 10:11-12
New King James Version (NKJV)

Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified

¹¹ And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. ¹² But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,

COVERED VS REMOVED

• Bible use the word covering ( Atonement )

Atonement example

• A spot in the shirt and we are trying to hide it with a jacket

Old Covenant

• In the Old Testament their sins were COVERED using the blood of Bulls and Goats

New Covenant

• But the Blood of Jesus Christ has REMOVED our sins